On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:12 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming <programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > The only disadvantage I recognize is the point about special code.
It would be interesting to go over the reasons you do not recognize the other disadvantages. > As to your other points, because the primitives are tacit, I believe there is > integrated rank support. > > floor b. 0 > 0 _ _ You might want to read http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/1998-October/000041.html All verbs have rank support, even verbs which contain explicit definitions. However, for some combinations of primitives, the interpreter takes special steps - bypassing the default implementation of rank support with something more efficient. > English is needed to read dictionary, and all of the primitives are the monad > dictionary entries, so everything is autodocumented. In my experience, documentation is difficult and autodocumentation quickly falls victim to entropy. It sounds great, but most examples I have seen become incredibly useless in practice. It's possible to work around this with manual effort, but the effort involved often seems to be greater than the effort of simply doing it manually in the first place. Where automation shines is replicating the useful manual efforts. > The advantage bigger than the one you mentioned is better seeing the intent > of code. Agreed. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
